History of Europe: From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV [i.e. 1815], Volumen1Blackwood, 1849 |
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... Histories of extraordinary talent , a crowd of Memoirs of various authority , but throwing , upon the whole , the fullest light on the manners , feelings , and sufferings of those troubled times . The previous state PREFACE . xi.
... Histories of extraordinary talent , a crowd of Memoirs of various authority , but throwing , upon the whole , the fullest light on the manners , feelings , and sufferings of those troubled times . The previous state PREFACE . xi.
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... feelings should sometimes have tinged with undue bias his otherwise impartial military relation . Count Toreno has , in an able work in six volumes , given the Spanish account of the whole events of the Peninsular War . If anything were ...
... feelings should sometimes have tinged with undue bias his otherwise impartial military relation . Count Toreno has , in an able work in six volumes , given the Spanish account of the whole events of the Peninsular War . If anything were ...
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... feeling but that of antipathy ; that no compliment is so flattering , because none is so sincere , as the vituperation of an adversary who has been inspired with dread ; and that , though the successful party in a strife is always ...
... feeling but that of antipathy ; that no compliment is so flattering , because none is so sincere , as the vituperation of an adversary who has been inspired with dread ; and that , though the successful party in a strife is always ...
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... feelings which attachment to a con- stitutional monarchy produces , may be supposed to adopt ; and the reader will find almost every fact , in the internal history of the Revolution , supported by two Republican and one Royalist ...
... feelings which attachment to a con- stitutional monarchy produces , may be supposed to adopt ; and the reader will find almost every fact , in the internal history of the Revolution , supported by two Republican and one Royalist ...
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... feelings of the moment could be faithfully transmitted to posterity , or justice done to the motives , on either side , which influenced mankind ; and a modern author need not hesitate to follow an example which has been set by ...
... feelings of the moment could be faithfully transmitted to posterity , or justice done to the motives , on either side , which influenced mankind ; and a modern author need not hesitate to follow an example which has been set by ...
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Página 255 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 255 - ... little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Página 162 - Les honneurs sont vendus aux plus ambitieux, L'autorité livrée aux plus séditieux. Ces petits souverains qu'il fait pour une année , Voyant d'un temps si court leur puissance bornée, Des plus heureux desseins font avorter le fruit, De peur de le laisser à celui qui les suit.
Página 135 - Him with her loved society; that now, As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings, Wherewith to scorn the earth...
Página 561 - I was much acquainted with the leading patriots of the Assembly. Being from a country which had successfully passed through a similar reformation, they were disposed to my acquaintance, and had some confidence in me. I urged, most strenuously, an immediate compromise ; to secure what the government was now ready to yield, and trust to future occasions for what might still be wanting.
Página 210 - Yet empty of all good, wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye...
Página 256 - ... loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and...
Página 81 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections...
Página 81 - Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted, that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said Declaration, are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this Kingdom...
Página 227 - ... all the symptoms, which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.